Ex-senior members of PVTEX brought to trial

The four defendants, who are former senior members of PVTEX, at the trial on August 28 (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - The Hanoi People’s Court on August
28 opened a trial of four former senior members of the Petrovietnam
Petrochemical and Textile Fiber JSC (PVTEX) for the charge of “deliberately
violating State regulations on economic management causing serious consequences”.

The defendants are Tran Trung Chi Hieu (born in
1963, former Chairman of the Board of Directors of PVTEX); Do Van Hong (born in
1967, Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director of Kinh Bac
Petroleum Construction and Investment JSC – PVC.KBC); Dao Ngo Hoang (born in
1978, former head of the trade-contract division of PVTEX); and Vu Phuong Nam
(born in 1979, former chief accountant of PVTEX).

Hieu was also charged with taking bribes.

According to the indictment of the Supreme
People’s Procuracy, while implementing a housing project for PVTEX employees,
Hieu and former General Director of PVTEX Vu Dinh Duy signed contracts with an
incapable and inexperienced contractor, changed the design and organised the
construction contrary to what was approved by the People’s Committee of Hai
Phong city.

The four defendants and Duy are accused of
advancing money and using the advance for the construction project illegally,
leading to a loss of more than 19 billion VND (821,100 USD) for the State.

The procuracy said their acts resulted in very serious
consequences, causing the project to be suspended in 2012, which led to its
current dilapidation. The Hai Phong municipal People’s Committee decided to
revoke the land for the project and over 92 billion VND (nearly 4 million USD)
of State capital invested in building apartments for workers but then illegally
used to build other houses.

When PVTEX contributed capital to establish
PVTEX Kinh Bac JSC, Duy, who has fled and is being hunted by police, and Hieu
also abused their positions and power and forced Hong to offered 3 billion VND
(129,600 USD) to each of them, according to the indictment.

The procuracy said among the four defendants,
Hieu must bear the main responsibility for PVTEX’s activities and deliberately
violated the State’s regulations on investment and construction. He also
directed his subordinates to illegally advance 20 billion VND (864,000 USD) to
PVC.KBC, leading to the loss of more than 19 billion VND.